AWS Identity and Access Management
API Reference (API Version 2010-05-08)
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DeleteInstanceProfile

Description

Deletes the specified instance profile. The instance profile must not have an associated role.

Important

Make sure you do not have any Amazon EC2 instances running with the instance profile you are about to delete. Deleting a role or instance profile that is associated with a running instance will break any applications running on the instance.

For more information about instance profiles, go to About Instance Profiles.

Request Parameters

For information about the common parameters that all actions use, see Common Parameters.

InstanceProfileName

Name of the instance profile to delete.

Type: String

Length constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Required: Yes

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

DeleteConflict

The request was rejected because it attempted to delete a resource that has attached subordinate entities. The error message describes these entities.

HTTP Status Code: 409

NoSuchEntity

The request was rejected because it referenced an entity that does not exist. The error message describes the entity.

HTTP Status Code: 404

Examples

Sample Request

https://iam.amazonaws.com/
?Action=DeleteInstanceProfile
&InstanceProfileName=Webserver
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMS
      

Sample Response

<DeleteInstanceProfileResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>90c18667-99f3-11e1-a4c3-27EXAMPLE804</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</DeleteInstanceProfileResponse>